The bracing exercises and hardy employments of country life invigorated his frame, and with this improvement brought with it a rare increase of energy.
He grew restless and impatient.

The tendency of his mind, which was so largely developed in the partisan exercises of after years, now began to exhibit itself.

Under this impulse he conceived a dislike to the staid and monotonous habits of rural life, and resolved upon seafaring as a vocation.

Such, it may be remarked, was also the early passion of Washington; a passion rather uncommon in the history of a southern farmer's boy.

In the case of Washington the desire was only overcome at the solicitations of his mother.